X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef56fa7bfbafdca7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "J. Tse" Subject: Re: ANSI/ASCII----Difference? Date: 1996/09/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186367569 sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) references: <52m592$iji@orm.southern.co.nz> x-sender: jyetse@cayley.uwaterloo.ca content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: University of Waterloo mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On 29 Sep 1996, Colin Douthwaite wrote: > Stephanie Struble (strubles@peak.org) wrote: > > >Can someone explain to me the difference b/w these two? I see ASCII art, > >but a friend of mine referred to ANSI art. What's the diff? > > ASCII uses the character set up to Decimal 127 only...usually the > characters on your keyboard. > > ANSI characters are Decimal 128 to 256 often referred to as the > IBM Extended Character Set. [ snipped ] Colin, How about ^M (Carriage Return) and Escape? Aren't they well below 127? I vaguely recall that ^M is 13 and Escape is 27 ... but I don't think they're included in ASCII --- they're really control codes that can change the screen colours and move the cursor around --- and mess up terminal emulations ... Am I misunderstanding? X-) J. Tse